An artificial demarcation in time defined by us Humans in our eternal search for supremacy over nature.
They also emphasised there was a distinction between "dwell time", which is defined as the time between the wheels stopping and moving again, and "boarding time", which is defined as the time during which people were passing through the bus doors.
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Since 1965 average work time (defined to include commuting) has fallen from 34 to 33 hours a week.
Leisure time, narrowly defined (to exclude doctor visits, for example) was up from 31 to 36 hours.
Once upon a time the traditional defined benefit pension plan was a powerful means to lock employees in.
The potential deal would give insurance companies a defined time period to make such changes in order to help cover more people and drive down long-term costs.
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Directed development projects begin with a specific end goal, rather than the aim to increase broad areas of knowledge, and generally include a defined time period and path forward.
The U.S. advocated and supported adoption of key elements of an accountability framework for the UN and for the first time this year defined what accountability means for the UN Secretariat.
The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, requires companies with more than 50 full-time employees (defined as working more than 30 hours a week) to provide health insurance that meets standards set by the Department of Health and Human Services.
They grieved for a time when leadership was defined by a single-minded, straightforward sense of purpose and direction.
This is the first time the EPA has defined a performance standard such that one type of facility can comply only by being something other than what it is.
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In his book, Make It In America: The Case for Re-Inventing the Economy, Dow Chemical Company CEO Andrew Liveris calls us to turn back the clock and return to a time when America was defined by the things it built.
In my last post, I defined Right Time Experiences as experiences that are derived by analyzing and combining contextual data from mobile (such as location, motion, prior usage behaviors) with data from your social graph and with data from the cloud that may be accessible via an API (e.g. weather, available parking in a area, restaurant table availability).
Surveying 543 business decision-makers, we found that boundaries of time and space that once defined the workplace no longer exist.
Work, traditionally, has been a place you went to and spent a pre-defined amount of time at, in order to earn a livelihood.
Mentors and mentees meet approximately once a month and together both parties draw up a contract and set specific goals to be met within a defined period of time, from 6 to 12 months.
This caused a noticeable (and duly noticed) one-off jump in the fraction of jobs defined as part-time (see chart).
They have a wealth of knowledge in how buyers measure success, how value is defined and changes of time, how well the product achieves target outcomes, and customer relationship and engagement expectations.
It is my hope that in time, Muslims will not be defined to my fellow Americans by the handful of terrorists, but by the millions of others who are involved in all aspects of American life.
She finally got what she had wanted the whole time: to be free and not defined by cancer.
That cooperation, at the same time, is governed by agreements and defined protocols.
Time and again, the company has defined premium by durability and a sheer abundance of software, and not necessarily by sexy industrial design.
The primary endpoint was the time to first major vascular event, defined as the composite of non-fatal MI or coronary death, any stroke or any arterial revascularization.
As a result, taxpayers were forced to ante up more money to make sure government employees would enjoy a financially secure retirement while at the same time, private sector employers closed their defined benefit plans to avoid funding them.
Small business has historically been a powerful engine of job creation and yet it is shying away from one of the biggest growth opportunities of our time: the Clean Economy, broadly defined here to include not only renewable energy, public mass transit, and waste treatment but all goods and services with environmental benefits.
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For the first time, being Chinese-American no longer defined who I was.
But at the same time he doesn't want to be defined as the black candidate in the race, realizing the possibility that white voters would be turned off to that.
You begin to accept that, for better or worse, the old rules and rewards system is falling apart and the simple equation of exchanging your time and skills for a fixed salary and defined benefits over a 30-year period no longer adds up.
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The Director-General called on political leaders to build on the potential of culture as a force for social cohesion and dialogue: "The role of culture in development should be fully recognized by policy makers, especially at a time when the new development agenda is being defined, " she said.
While the referees maintain the defined contribution plan for a period of time, the NFL arguably won on this issue.
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